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The Firewall Is Dead – What Can Businesses Do To Protect And Secure Their Brands?

YoungUpstarts

Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. The size of risk increases with third parties that rely on APIs and build on these interfaces, as this normally means the exposure of more services and credentials by companies. Think again.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

If engineers want more time to spend making their old code more pretty, they are invited to do so on the weekends. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.) The current code is spaghetti, but the new code will be elegant. Its become "legacy code" and part of the problem.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. We can choose to continue paying the interest, or we can pay down the principal by refactoring the quick and dirty design into the better design.

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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. We now know how to crack the entrepreneurial code by creating an Entrepreneurship API - a standard language for entrepreneurs.

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ProductCamp Austin 2017 — a few lessons

Austin Startup

Upgrade From This Old Unnecessary Process David Hawks , CEO, Agile Velocity Main take-away — focus on discovery, not as much delivery. Most of the Agile world is in the perspective of delivery focus. The five-day design sprint’s purpose is to quickly find out how customers react before investing too much time and expense.

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A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms

bijoor.me

Agile Development. Johan proposes a framework that describes the various layers of cloud platform services starting from virtualized hardware up to end-user software applications. 1: Software Defined Datacenter Users : Infrastructure Engineers. Social Marketing and Sales. Sales Activity Management. B2B Sales Process. Technology.

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The Rise Of Cloud Computing

YoungUpstarts

Cloud solutions come in three key different flavors, being IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service), and Saas (Software as a Service). With cloud, it is less necessary to own your IT infrastructure, much less your own software. Services can be deployed from the cloud as and when it is needed, like a utility.

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